Examples of 'signifier' in a sentence

Meaning of "signifier"

Signifier is a term in semiotics referring to a sound, word, or image that signifies a specific meaning
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  • Something or someone that signifies, makes something more significant or important.
  • A card representing a querent, question, or situation.
  • The sound of a spoken word or string of letters on a page that a person recognizes as a sign.

How to use "signifier" in a sentence

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Each signifier then would be a particular point.
To be interested in structure is to be unable to neglect the signifier.
The signifier is separated from the signified.
Clothing had always been a powerful signifier of nationality.
The signifier is also the meaning itself.
That which remains inarticulable in the signifier.
A product has a signifier and a signified.
The signifier is the physical or phonetic representation of a sign.
Names themselves are important as a signifier of identity throughout.
The signifier is the cause of jouissance.
The combination of a signifier and a signified.
The signifier represents the signified.
A sign must have both a signifier and a signified.
The signifier has split from the signified.
That would leave a totally different forensic signifier.

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It is neither the signifier nor what resonates from it.
Signifier and signified in the sign.
It is that the signifier becomes materiality.
Tabularism is a sign and not a signifier.
This missing signifier is then constitutive of the subject.
There is no intrinsic link between signifier and signified.
The signifier is the sound of the linguistic object.
There must be something in the signifier which resonates.
One obvious signifier is the use of change of status.
The signified is not the signifier.
Believing in the signifier rather than in the signified.
In traditional semiotics a sign indicates a signifier.
The father is a signifier substituted for another signifier.
Use color as a time signifier.
A signifier that times are changing.
And what could be a better signifier of disembodied western rationality.
Signifier and signified are different.
It is the signifier of the desire.
Dubiety belongs to the signifier.
The signifier is not functional.
Is simultaneously signifier and signified.
The signifier is a red light hanging over the road.
Totally different forensic signifier.
This detail is a signifier that each of them have achieved enlightenment.
This is the specific signifier.
The relationship between the signifier and signified is an arbitrary relationship.
In a thermoelectric machine supported by feedback the signifier is not employed.
Haste is a signifier of disorganization.
Sign in the first system becomes a signifier in the second.
Dress is taken as a signifier of difference and difference is seen as symbolic of malevolence.
But simulation also concerns the nature of the signifier.
This is the problem of the signifier and the signified.
But the signifier can in no way be limited to this phonematic support.
Return of refugees is an important signifier of peace and the end of conflict.
Signifier without a referent.

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